Sweat (TCG Edition)
Title | Sweat (TCG Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Nottage |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2017-05-22 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1559368543 |
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play “Lynn Nottage’s best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result from class aspirations.” –Hilton Als, New Yorker Lynn Nottage has written one of her most exquisitely devastating tragedies to date. In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Based on Nottage’s extensive research and interviews with residents of Reading, Sweat is a topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America’s economic decline. Lynn Nottage is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize Awards for Drama for Sweat and Ruined. She is the first woman playwright to be honored twice. Her other plays include Intimate Apparel; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; and Las Meninas.
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Title | Crumbs from the Table of Joy PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Nottage |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822215721 |
THE STORY: Recently widowed Godfrey, and his daughters Ernestine and Ermina, move from Florida to Brooklyn for a better life. Not knowing how to parent, Godfrey turns to religion, and especially to Father Divine, for answers. The girls absorb their
Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition)
Title | Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Suzan-Lori Parks |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2001-06-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1559366249 |
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including In the Blood and Venus. She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
Three Sisters (TCG Edition)
Title | Three Sisters (TCG Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1559366818 |
This refreshingly clear and colloquial adaptation was the basis for the Wooster Group's acclaimed production Brace Up!
Linda Vista (TCG Edition)
Title | Linda Vista (TCG Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Letts |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2020-09-22 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1559369248 |
“Letts is a master of pitch-dark comedies that measure the grisliest depths of human behavior…Linda Vista is very funny, equally unsettling…An inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy.” —Ben Brantley, New York Times Fifty-year-old Wheeler is moving into his own apartment after a nasty divorce. With a blend of humor and humanity, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tracy Letts demonstrates the ultimate midlife crisis: the bewildering search for self-discovery once you’ve already grown up.
Teddy Ferrara (TCG Edition)
Title | Teddy Ferrara (TCG Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Shinn |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2013-11-04 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1559367571 |
"Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today."—The New York Times "Chris Shinn explores politics and ethics without moralizing and finds justice and beauty in intimate life, keenly observed and rendered scrupulously, unapologetically, fearlessly . . . I admire his work enormously."—Tony Kushner When a campus tragedy makes national headlines, Gabe, a senior who runs the Queer Students Group, discovers that events surrounding the tragedy aren't as straightforward as they seem. A Pulitzer Prize finalist's searing play about what happens when a tragedy sparks a movement – and the truth gets lost along the way. World Premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in winter 2013. Christopher Shinn's works include Where Do We Live, Four, Other People, What Didn't Happen, On the Mountain, and The Coming World. He has received the Obie Award for playwriting and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, and has also been shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play and nominated for an Olivier Award for Most Promising Playwright.
Passion Play (TCG Edition)
Title | Passion Play (TCG Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Ruhl |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2010-09-21 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1559366648 |
Named one of the "Ten Best Plays of 2008" by The New Yorker “Sarah Ruhl’s bold, inventive, and ironic triptych [is] a meditation on devotion and its appropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original; a storyteller with a fine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker “It’s a different kind of morality play . . . an often wondrous work . . . with [Ruhl’s] own special lyrical blend of poetry, humor and grace.”—Frank Rizzo, Variety Passion Play is Sarah Ruhl’s “biggest, most ambitious effort yet” (The New York Times), a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion. Ruhl dramatizes a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1575 northern England, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual; 1934 Oberammergua, Bavaria, as Hitler is rising to power; and Spearfish, South Dakota, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan’s presidency. In each period, the players grapple in different ways with the transformative nature of art, and politics are never far in the background, as Queen Elizabeth, Hitler, and Reagan each appear, played by a single commanding actor. Sarah Ruhl’s plays include Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Eurydice, and The Clean House, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been widely produced both throughout the country and internationally, and she is the recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.